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Steve King: House GOP Serious About Pulling ObamaCare

'Out by the Roots'

Rep. Steve King tells Newsmax it's "ridiculous" to view a House vote to repeal ObamaCare as merely symbolic, insisting that enough Democrats will vote against healthcare reform to defeat it in the Senate as well.

The Iowa Republican also asserts that "it's time to play hardball" with President Obama on the healthcare reform issue, and says he's hopeful the House will stop funding ObamaCare as early as February.

In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV, Rep. King - who was first elected in 2002 - says the Republican-controlled House is expected to vote for the repeal of ObamaCare on Wednesday, and declares: "That is a big statement to make.

"Of the 87 freshman Republicans, I don't know if any of them will not vote to repeal ObamaCare. In fact I think all Republicans will vote to repeal it, and we will get some Democrats. Probably some of the Democrats that didn't vote for Nancy Pelosi for Speaker [on Wednesday] will vote to repeal ObamaCare."

Referring to media reports that the House vote would be merely symbolic, since the Democrats still control the Senate and President Obama is likely to veto a repeal bill, King tells Newsmax: "I'd say that's completely ridiculous, and that's the best talking point that they have.

"We would put out a piece of policy, which is to pull ObamaCare out by the roots, pull it lock, stock, and barrel, and pass that out of the House of Representatives with a resounding vote, perhaps unanimous on the part of Republicans, and more than likely significantly bipartisan, and send it over to the Senate.

"That becomes a huge hot potato to sit on [Obama's] desk, and he's going to have to figure out how to deal with that, with 21 Democrats in the Senate up for re-election in 2012.

"So I don't think it's beyond reach. I think we can push the Senate hard, and I think we've got a reasonable chance to force a vote in the Senate. And if it comes up for a vote in the Senate, they will vote to repeal ObamaCare. Then the president can veto it and then we'll start the process over again while we shut off funding ObamaCare in each of the appropriations bills."

A new appropriations bill that will extend funding of the federal government until the end of the fiscal year "must have in my view language in it that prohibits any of the funds from being used to implement or enforce ObamaCare," King says.

"If we do that with the extension of the funding, then we can put an end to Obamacare in the month of February, send that over to the Senate and see what they do with it.

"It's time to play hardball with President Obama. If we can shut off the funding we can get this fight over with, and we can get on with the business of creating jobs and stimulating the economy and allowing for the free markets to create those jobs."

Emphasizing that he remains optimistic that ObamaCare can be repealed, King says: "It's one of my life's missions. I wouldn't have started on this if I didn't think this was possible.

"We can do this. We've already won the debate with the American people.

"We cannot reach the next level of our destiny as a nation if we are going to be saddled with the albatross of ObamaCare. Let's put that around his neck and not the neck of the American people."

King believes that rolling back federal spending to the 2008 level is a "very likely thing." He wants a balanced budget amendment but doubts "that the leadership will allow it to the floor."

King has introduced legislation to deny automatic citizenship to "anchor babies" - children born in the United States whose parents are in this country illegally.

"That's something we should have done a long time ago," he tells Newsmax. "We must push that through I think in this Congress."

King says he would welcome the support of Democrats in dealing with the budget deficit, federal spending and other issues.

"I want to reach out to Democrats and work with them where I can. They may well be in the majority again if we don't get this done. But I don't think there will be very many Democrats who will join us in cutting spending.

"The Democrats who will join us in shrinking government will be welcomed over on our side. And I would not be surprised if there is a Democrat or two that would switch sides and come over to this party, because they will have learned that their party has left them."

Source: www.newsmax.com/Headline/steve-king-health-care/2011/01/06/id/382079 Thursday, 06 Jan 2011 01:18 PM By Jim Meyers and Kathleen Walter

According to a recent Rasmussen's poll, most Americans understand the FCC's internet regulations will be used by the government to push a political agenda.

54% of respondents oppose the FCC effort to regulate the internet while 21% support it. 25% are not sure. By a 52% to 27% margin, Rasmussen reported on December 28, voters believe that more free market competition is better than more regulation for protecting internet users. Most Democrats see an unbiased regulatory approach, while most Republicans and unaffiliated voters fear a political agenda.

In April, a Rasmussen poll revealed that just 27% of Americans believed the Federal Communications Commission should regulate the internet like it does television and radio.

Internet regulation was the hallmark of Obama in 2008 as he ran for president. After installing Genachowski as FCC chairman, the Obama administration started to move on its promise to regulate the internet. The FCC began to act like a fiefdom and told a federal appeals court it had the power to impose regulation on broadband rates, even though Congress had not given the agency the power to do so.

In fact, 300 members of Congress, including a large number of Democrats, told the FCC in no uncertain terms to stop its attempt to grab power over the internet. The FCC temporarily changed tack and convened negotiations over the summer with a select group of industry representatives and proponents of internet regulation.

In August, the FCC worked with House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman on a draft bill codifying network management rules.

The FCC decided before Christmas to make its move. Obama said the new government regulation will "help preserve the free and open nature of the Internet." In fact, it would do just the opposite.

Genachowski and the FCC naturally try to make this unwarranted move look like a white knight government protecting consumers against greedy telecommunications companies and ISPs. Beyond the rhetoric about "net neutrality," however, lies the real purpose of the FCC regulations - government control and censorship.

"What governments around the world are suddenly beginning to realize is that a free internet is ultimately incompatible with government secrets, and secrets are essential to any government that wants to remain in power," writes Mike Adams of Natural News. "As part of a long-term plan to control content on the internet, the FCC is now attempting to assert authority over the internet in the same way it has long exercised content censorship authority over broadcast television and radio."

Adams argues that the FCC is attempting to assert its authority over the internet. "By asserting its authority with net neutrality, the FCC will establish a beachhead of implied authority from which it can begin to control and censor the internet," he writes.

Obama's FCC commissariat is not losing sleep over the First Amendment. It was the FCC's Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd who said that "blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies," namely converting the internet into the same government regulated medium as television and radio.

Prior to the FCC vote, the United Nations announced its plan to regulate the internet.

"The United Nations is also aiming to run the Internet for you," warns Joseph A. Klein. "With the backing of governments around the world who don't mind free-riding on American investment and know-how in the Internet while seeking as many ways as possible to usurp control over its governance, the UN establishment has been trying for years to move control of the Internet's day-to-day management to some sort of global governance forum."

Efforts by the FCC and the United Nations at the behest of the globalists are contrary to the model that has emerged since the technology was invented in 1973 and became public in the early 1990s.

"The beauty of the Internet is that it's not controlled by any one group. Its governance is bottoms-up - with academics, non-profits, companies and governments all working to improve this technological wonder of the modern world. This model has not only made the Internet very open - a testbed for innovation by anyone, anywhere - it's also prevented vested interests from taking control," wrote Vint Cerf, who is often called the father of the internet, in response to the UN proposal to regulate the internet.

A free and open internet is anathema to government as it moves to control nations, populations, and telecommunications. In order to succeed and build world government and its accompanying control grid, the internet must be tamed and folded into the established propaganda apparatus.

The machinations of the FCC and the United Nations reveal once again how worried the establishment is about a free and open internet. The internet cannot be allowed to be a primary and growing source of alternative information that challenges daily the corporate media propaganda system that acts like a megaphone for a control freak government.

The Rasmussen poll reveals that while many Americans may not fully understand the underlying reasons for government control of the internet - to stifle opposition to the government in the same way the Chinese have - they are steadfastly opposed to more regulation.

http://info-wars.org/2010/12/30/americans-oppose-government-efforts-to-take-over-internet/ Kurt Nimmo Prison Planet.com December 29, 2010 and December 30, 2010 by Infowars Ireland

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